Real Estate FROM COAST TO COUNTRY
DJ Stringer marks 22 years and going strong
“A really nice bloke called Gary Reed had good agent and sadly passed away.” owned the business and we could see the David said they grew from two staff to 30. potential. It was right on the beach in an “We do Melbourne Cup, Christmas, DAVID AND Tammy Stringer and their staff old butcher shop we refitted.” birthday cakes on birthdays,” he said are celebrating the 22nd birthday of DJ Kirra Beach Realty had 20 rentals when “We are like a big family and that’s’ Stringer. The Weekly caught up with David David and Tammy bought it. because we are independent. to hear some of his amazing stories of “From 20 rentals we now have over “A lot of staff have been with us for ten to starting out and life in Cooly and Tweed. 1,100,” he said. 15 years and they are all very important to “I worked in residential property “A chap came in on the second day and us and we look after them. management in Melbourne for five yeras asked us to list his property and we sold “When Tammy and I were at Max and then worked for Max Christmas in it the first day and we turned around and Christmas, we discussed starting a business Surfers Paradise from 1996,” David said. The original DJ Stringer office at Kirra in 2001 said to each other, ‘Shit, we’ve got to do a or travelling the world. “I was in commercial property “Fortunately, we chose the real estate management and Tammy was working there Skase (Marina Mirage developer) and Alan contract, how do we do it?’. “I had a mentor called Don Power who path and apart from running a successful and we started dating. Bond (Bond University) and sold a lot of business are now happily married with three “I worked alongside Max for five years. property for Mike Gore at Sanctuary Cove.” said I had to have a plan and I said, ‘I don’t have a plan’. I just thought if I put children: Cruz aged 10, Saige 15 and Zahli He was a colourful character and we David bought a houseboat at Mariners 100 per cent in it would be alright and if is 17. worked on the big arcades and nightclubs Cove which he lived on. I had a plan and didn’t achieve it I’d be “While the kids have no real interest in in Surfers. “It was in the heyday of the old fisho’s disappointed. It works for me.” taking over the business as yet, they do “I leased Billy Cross (owner of Manpower) (Fisherman’s Wharf) and I was having a Six months after they bought the business have fun mimicking me doing video footage his first nightclub in Orchid Avenue, the whale of a time and paying $100 a week the market started booming. for sale property, which could be a start but Drink Nightclub. It was the old Penthouse to be on the water in one of the best places “Properties doubled and doubled and just we have no intention of retiring early. Nightclub. in Queensland,” he said. “We enjoy the business, we have a lot of “Working in Surfers was a real buzz, and “It was like a carnival up there. There were kept going,” he said. “We employed Greg McKinnon as a sales fun and we still believe there is a lot of work with the IndyCar and Max a councillor it always things going on. It was a really, manager who was a good friend and a for us.” was pretty exciting. really good time. Then they kicked all the “It was just a really fun time in a busy houseboats out so Tammy and I took it up to tourist place. You get caught up in that Runaway Bay.” whole energy.” Sitting in a cafe David saw a tiny ad for Billy James, who owned Billy’s Beach Kirra Beach Realty. House, also worked for Max for a number “We almost bought it on the spot. I sold of years. the houseboat to buy it, but then we had to “There were a lot of larger-than-life work out about how we got our corporation characters around,” David said. licences so we could operate,” he said. “I lined up about 20 A4 books and “Max was one of the original white-shoe DJ Stringer is now one of the most successful local real estate agencies crammed to study it all but I had no choice. brigade and cut his teeth with Christopher By Jo Kennett
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